• Media type: E-Article
  • Title: Old-Keynesianism in the New Keynesian Model
  • Contributor: van der Kwaak, Christiaan
  • Published: Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2024
  • Published in: De Economist (2024)
  • Language: English
  • DOI: 10.1007/s10645-024-09437-3
  • ISSN: 0013-063X; 1572-9982
  • Origination:
  • Footnote:
  • Description: AbstractI investigate an ‘old Keynesian’ fiscal policy in which government spending endogenously responds to inflation and the output gap when the nominal interest rate is pegged at the ZLB. I do so within a standard Representative Agent New Keynesian model (RANK), as well as a two-period Overlapping Generations New Keynesian model (OLG-NK). For both model versions, I find that the equilibrium values for inflation and the output gap under a standard Taylor rule regime can be replicated under the ‘old Keynesian’ regime. However, a unique stable countercyclical equilibrium is only feasible within the OLG-NK model and crucially depends on the pension system.